Court won't hear dispute over 'boobies' bracelets

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that wants to prevent students from wearing "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness among young people.

The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling striking down a ban on the bracelets that was put in place by the Easton Area School District, which says the breast-cancer awareness bracelets are lewd in their use of sexual innuendo.

The lower court sided with two students who sued the district in 2010 with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. Easton is one of several school districts around the country to ban the bracelets, which are distributed by the nonprofit Keep A Breast Foundation of Carlsbad, Calif.

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Those two young ladies should be so ashamed of themselves. You know it's just not done. Why would they even try to speak about breast cancer. It's not like they might one day develope breast cancer you know. Grow up school district and allow these brave young women to press for awareness of this blight.

The school does have that right, but it's not like they are wearing bracelets they say Kill the Jews or I Hate Niggers. It's silly, it's a fad, and if they ignore it the kids will move on to something else before long.

Thank you Shirley Temple for bringing this cancer out in the open so a cure may be found. She was a republican like so many battling lib ignorance. This is so typical for the lib school systems, really are you that shallow?

I'm not thrilled about the way we handle disease management in this country. We send celebrities to Congress to state why their particular cause or disease is the one that should get research funding, for example, Michael J Fox and Parkinson's . We make high school football players change the color of their uniforms (adding some pink) to show their support for breast cancer. It is so politically correct to be on board in the fight against breast cancer that the PC Police would be all over any football player who said he would rather just stick with the school colors. If he said that it looks gay, he might never be heard from again.

Do we need research on breast cancer, and on cancer in general? Of course. But how about letting the researches research, and not running medicine like it's a political campaign? By using the word "boobies" in the bracelets, the cause got exactly what they wanted, more attention.

If I came here from Mars and saw all the campaigning for breast cancer awareness, I would think that it kills more women than any other disease. It doesn't. In the US, heart disease is number one. I wonder how funding for that reseach has done in the last ten years compared with breast cancer. More than that, it won't be long before more women's lives are at risk due to obesity than is true for breast cancer.

Do we need to work hard on cancer reseach. Absolutely. Should we be making breast cancer such a politically correct cause that funds may be diverted from reserach that is equally or even more important? Absolutely not.

It is called freedom of speech (expression) that is not subject to one person's twisted interpretation of the particular wording on anything. What one person considers obscene is perfectly okay with someone else. The standards have to favor the looser interpretation if we are to survive as a free society. There are limits but they have to be applied carefully.